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Suspend vs Dormant - What's the difference?

suspend | dormant |

As a verb suspend

is to halt something temporarily.

As an adjective dormant is

inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

suspend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
    • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
    • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
    • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
    • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
    • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
    • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
    • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
    • Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

    • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

    Anagrams

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    dormant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dormaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
    • Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
    The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
    This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
  • * Burke
    • It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
  • (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
    • a lion dormant

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormancy * dormition * dormitive * dormitory

    Antonyms

    * active * active, extinct

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